Awesome Videos

The perpetually shouting dudes convened a session of basketball trick shots in the presence of a Guinness World Records adjudicator, and proceeded to knock out eleven relatively obscure records, stealing a few from NBA greats and the Globetrotters along the way.

(Gore) The Hydraulic Press Channel subjected a ballistic gel human hand and foot to the power of their deadly press, resulting in a nasty mush that isn’t too far off of what it would look like if you put an actual hand or foot in there. The crunching sound is especially gut-wrenching.

The Lonely Island join The Tonight Show‘s Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to play a radio-friendly version of their hit single I’m On A Boat using classroom instruments. Although apparently Black Thought didn’t get the memo.

At the end of the latest episode of The Simpsons, Dan Castellaneta took live calls from viewers while MoCap synched the animation. The result was pretty impressive, though the questions were just as vacuous as Homer’s answers. West coast feed here. Int’l feed here.

“I like to meditate while I work on my core… even though I was born with a six-pack.” Margot Robbie and Vogue made a steamy parody of Christian Bale’s creepy morning routine from American Psycho.

LEGO enthusiast Nick Brick made an incredible life-size version of the M41 SPNKR, the classic rocket launcher from the Halo series. It’s 50.5″ long, weighs 24lb and is made of about 6,000 LEGO pieces. Its double barrel unit is detachable, just like in the games.

Cardistry master Noel Larsen-Heath shows off some of his impressive card handling skills, from spinning cards on his fingertips to floating them in mid-air. The last time we saw someone bend playing cards like he does, the guy next to us at the blackjack table got shown the door.

Practical Engineering shows off a construction technique called Mechanically Stabilized Earth to strengthen material that would normally crumble under even the slightest of weight. The trick is adding thin, stiff layers like screen to confine the loose grains of sand.

Carpenter Matthias Wandel demonstrates the complicated process of creating links in a wooden chain from a single block of maple hardwood without using any glue. To add to the challenge, he did it almost entirely with power tools rather than hand carving.

Artist Nemo Gould loves to make kinetic sculptures using found objects and handmade components. One of his latest works is Megalodon, a 192″-long robotic shark submarine that he made from an F-94 bomber’s fuel tank, nixie tubes, motors, and other bits.

Eadweard Muybridge was a 19th century photographer who inadvertently pioneered motion pictures and projectors. But he also murdered his wife’s lover and abandoned his son. Drew Christie explores the chasm between creators and their creations in this short film.

Triple D Game Farm is a ranch in Kalispell, MT that raises animal models for photography, cinematography and educational purposes. Here’s one of their models, a grizzly bear, goofing off with a sprinkler.

“Yes, yes, every 10 year, he comes to my village in the middle of the night to take a new wife.” For their latest Weekend Update, Saturday Night Live‘s MVP Kate McKinnon put on her poor Russian villager character to talk about Donald Trump. Skip to 2:33.

YouTuber Standupmaths shows us an old game from the 1960s called The Amazing Dr. NIM. This apparently simple game that combines moving plastic bits and marbles is basically impossible to beat if you follow the rules, thanks to a little mathematical trickery.

YouTuber Joe Santagato and his siblings pair off and try to guess what their teammate is saying while the latter is wearing a dental cheek retractor. So that’s what the Predator was wearing.

Shiwar Awaz Berai Boo Ray. YouTuber Jim Jarmo put together another one of his pun-filled music videos, this time paying tribute to the late, great artist Prince, and as usual, using nothing more than actual social media profile names to provide the lyrical subtitles.

Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia’s video for Coldplay’s single combines visuals of real world settings filmed at dramatically different distances. The result is a surreal world in which soccer is played on a sponge, volcanoes spew popcorn, and babies fly on airplane wings.

The Slow Mo Guys take on the corn drill challenge, where you try to eat an entire corn on the cob as fast as possible by sticking it to a power drill. Don’t worry, that’s just ketchup. No flesh or hair was lost.

In 2011, YouTuber themanbatman combined scenes from The Machinist, The Dark Knight, Inception and more to make The Batman Complex, a fan trailer that depicts Bruce Wayne as a schizophrenic. Here’s his updated version of the trailer. It’s Moon Knight: The Movie.

Andy has been Conan O’Brien’s sidekick for most of the last 23 years. They’re still great together, but no relationship is perfect, as Andy brazenly revealed by showing off his no holds barred memoirs right in Coco’s face.

Voltaire was the 18th century equivalent of Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and other satirists. While not a rebel or an atheist, he used his humorous and elegant writing to criticize irrational and intolerant institutions and break down complex thoughts into digestible tidbits.

(SPOILERS) Game of Thrones star Kit Harington tells a (suspiciously awesome) anecdote about how he had a hard time keeping the fate of his character Jon Snow a secret, even to total strangers.

His home destroyed by mother nature’s fury, Jeff Metcalf aka “Captain Tornado” may have the requisite sad story of a typical reality show contestant, but that doesn’t mean he has any clue how to actually get through the daunting American Ninja Warrior obstacle course.